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LACTOSE INTOLERANT: TWO SIMPLE REASONS FOR STOP DRINKING MILK

Recipe: HOW TO MAKE ALMOND MILK AND OAT MILK

(Versione italiana di seguito)

Let’s go back in time, around 12 years ago. When you officially move on from youth airiness to adult age hypochondria, i.e. that moment when you upgrade with a stable relationship or a child, illnesses and troubles start to pop up. Indeed at the moment we had our first child, my stomach start to feel upset every day after breakfast (and i wasn’t feel bad when I ate mostly alcohol and drugs…what a powerful period is the youth!). Breakfast was the only moment I was drinking milk, so I thought that was the problem and I stop, and it was hard, the cappuccino. It was not only change a nutritional habit, but more changing something traditional and vital, like a sunrise is for the beginning of a new day. The stomach troubles were gone. Once again I practice my personal law, like when I stop cocaine and cigarettes overnight: my will and only my will can decide, nothing and nobody else. I don’t remeber how long is I don’t drink a regular cappuccino or caffellatte. I start with tea (what a sadness, in my family, tea is when you’re sick!). Later on I quit definitively the hot-beverage-in-the-morning stereotype and I start drinking cold pressed green juices using a masticator.

When our second child was three, kids were always sick, always respiratory related problems: cough, mucus and cold. Pediatricians in France love to give you a load of medicines, not trying to solve the problem at the source (they have to make money for their friends the pharmaceutical companies). A friend told me to try to remove regular milk from their diet. Once again, respiratory troubles were gone: cough and mucus had to retreat, facing a stronger body. Now, I don’t sell almond milk and I don’t preach veganism, so there’s no pint for me to bullshit you.

The whole family was now drinking alternative milk thet you can find on the market, from almonds to soya and rice. New problem popped up. Now we were living in North America where they have great skills for process a simple and natural product into a disgusting mix of chemicals, in order to make more money, obviously: very hard to find milk substitutes beverages without gum, sugar, non-natural vitamines and various chemicals.

and we start to make our own almond and oat milk. Almonds, water and love. Carboni love to spend time in the kitchen, cause what we’re eating is the first, very important step for happiness.

HOW TO MAKE ALMOND MILK

1 cup of almonds skin on or skinless

3 cups of water

TOOLS:

vitamix or blender

nut milk bag

funnell

glass bottles for storage

Soak your almonds overnight. Change the water in the morning and rinse the almonds. If you have a masticator, mash before the almonds pouring regularly water in. If you are using only a blender, put directly in the soaked almonds with water and mix it for 2 minutes.

Place the nut milk bag over a container and pour in the mix.

Now close the bag and squeeze gently with one hand, keeping the top closed with the other hand, avoiding the pulp to come out. Squeeze well, till your hands are hurting cause you know how expensive are almonds and you don’t want waste them.

Done! Now fill the bottles with your funnel and store it in fridge. Use by 4-5 days and shake well before to drink.

HOW TO DO OAT MILK

1 cup roller oats, thick ones

1 liter water

Oak doesn’t need to be soaked, just blend it with water and use the same procedure as almond milk.